From Roger Middleton P.B.F.A., Oxford, United Kingdom
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AbeBooks Seller since 03 January 1999
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FIRST EDITION (1915), Father Tuck's "Holiday" series, oblong 4to, approximately 240 x 335 mm, 9¼ x 13 inches, 18 pages including insides of covers, on 6 of these pages is a fantastic full page full coloured illustration of 3 very large kittens, all quite different, the other 12 pages in black and white with one colour, green or red, all show cats or kittens, some dressed. At the top of each page is a caption and below 4 lines of descriptive verse by Grace C. Floyd. Bound in the original publisher's shiny thick card covers, spine inexpertly but neatly covered in grey cloth, 3 large kittens in black and white with large red bows on upper, repeat of the 3 red Meistersingers in large striped bows on lower cover. Respined neatly in grey cloth, corners slightly worn, tiny chip to surface paper on lower cover at upper edge and at fore-edge, small pale damp stain to lower margin of lower cover, another very small next to spine on lower cover, pages just very slightly darkened at edges, otherwise contents very clean. A very good copy of an uncommon delightul Wain kitten book, not in Dale or Necker. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST. Seller Inventory # 48782
Bibliographic Details
Title: A TRIP TO CATLAND WITH LOUIS WAIN.
Publisher: London Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd. No. 1915
Publication Date: 7161
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
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